Ecological design and climate change in Melbourne: impacts on the Birrarung’s bank

The motivation behind this examination is to explore the relationship between social media platforms' effects on public perception and support of public issues in climate change. The paper embraced a quantitative exploration plan and utilized a survey method to collect data from 185 students of private and government sector education institutions in Lahore via a self-online administrative survey. The paper applied SEM to examine the hypotheses and analyse the data. The paper found that social media platforms affected public perception and support of public issues in climate change. The nature of both the hypotheses used in this study was direct. The study adds to the works on the link between social media platforms, the public’s perception and support of public issues in climate change. It gives experimental proof to support the hypotheses that social media platforms influence on public’s perception and support of public issues. The research determines how SMP affects public attitude on climate change, a major global issue. It shows the significance of data reliability on SMP and implies that rigorous content assessment is required to prevent the dissemination of false information. The research aims to identify the association between social media platforms, the public’s perception, and support of public issues. It offers an original viewpoint on how social media platforms can improve public perceptions and support of public issues in climate change.

The current political discourse in the UK is characterised by a notable tendency to securitise the issue of climate change. Given that the British Ministry of Defence (further – the MoD) is responsible for the UK’s security, it is pivotal to shed light onto how the MoD frames the issue of climate change in its reports. Against this background, the present article introduces a study, which employs a qualitative framing analysis in order to examine the framing of climate change in the MoD’s report on climate change published in 2024. The aim of the study is to provide answers the following research question (RQ): How is the issue of climate change framed in the MoD’s 2024 report? In terms of the methodology, the study is based upon a qualitative framing approach to discourse (Entman, 1993). The application of the qualitative methodology to the report yielded the following results, which were manifested by eight different types of frames, namely Agility, Challenge, Costs, Future, Green Energy, Mitigation, Risk, and Technology. It was found that all of the aforementioned frames were discursively situated in the nexus between the issues of security and climate change. Judging from the findings, the MoD report framed the issue of climate change via the frames that were interrelated or, at least, were indicative of a clear connection between them, which allowed their classification into the following groups: (i) Challenge and Risk, (ii) Costs, Future, and Mitigation, and (iii) Technology and Green Energy. Concurrently, the frame Agility was found to be a stand-alone type of the framing of climate change. Discussion. The frames Challenge and Risk, (ii) Costs and Mitigation, and (iii) Technology and Green Energy were reflective of the literature, which reported the presence of similar frames in the British discourses on climate change. However, it was established that the frames Agility and Future could not be discussed in terms of their relationship to the literature on the grounds that they, and especially, the frame Agility, seemed to be a novel finding not previously mentioned in the prior studies. It could be concluded that the British MoD communicated the issue of climate change in an open access report that was framed in such a way that it seemed to be aligned with the respective frames by the consecutive British governments, such as the frames Challenge and Risk, Costs and Mitigation, and Technology and Green Energy.

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2022

Communications research scholars, political scientists, and policy analysts have significantly recognized the role of news media in reporting and portraying public issues. Nowadays, climate change is an important global environmental concern for the world communities. Study on the media coverage of climate-change issues is vitally important to know the present situation of both the global and regional climate, as well as to assess the causes, mitigation and adaptation techniques, and its adverse impacts. This study demonstrates the coverage of newspapers in Bangladesh on climate change from May 2006 through June 2009 for the three most popular newspapers of Bangladesh, namely The Prothom Alo, The Daily Ittefaq, and The Daily Star. Natural disasters was the major climate-change issue that received the most coverage, along with agriculture, biodiversity, global warming, climate change, crime, water scarcity, food scarcity, politics, wetlands, tourisms, rivers, forestry and miscellaneous issues. Local communication concerned with climate-change issues was given preference in the coverage by the newspapers throughout the study period. The study will be useful for awareness-program formulation on climate-change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh.

Political participation on the issue of climate change can encompass many different forms of individual and collective actions designed to affect governmental policies. At the most basic level, issue-specific political participation occurs when individuals directly attempt to influence governmental actors or policies on climate change—most notably by voting, but also through donating money and communicating with public officials. These types of participation tend to be relatively rare, limited to a small subset of deeply committed individuals. In contrast, personal action on climate change is more widely dispersed, especially if one includes impact-oriented actions (e.g., actions that influence the environment but are primarily undertaken for other reasons, like convenience or saving money) rather than purely intention-based actions, which occur when individuals adopt behaviors with the goal of addressing climate change. Additionally, opportunities to engage in expressive participation, largely online, create new spaces for individuals to build networks to engage in political action, as well as potentially to reach unengaged groups that are less likely to seek out information on the issue. A number of forces can contribute to whether an individual chooses to participate on the issue of climate change. Individual characteristics, like perceptions of impersonal and personal risks associated with climate change, knowledge of the issues, and environmental values all tend to produce people more likely to participate—especially when these attitudes become part of an individual’s identity as an opinion leader or activist. As a global issue, social norms play a particularly powerful role; when individuals believe others support and are likely to take action themselves, it tends to foster a sense of efficacy that such behaviors will be effective in producing change. Individual choices about media sources also intersect with media coverage and framing of the issue to influence perceptions of the issue and likelihood of taking action. Such media framing can exacerbate or mitigate the heightened political polarization on the issue of climate change that has erected barriers to effective political action in many democratic societies in recent years, most notably in the United States. New forms of political participation may create opportunities to encourage more participation on the issue of climate change, but they also raise ethical questions about inequality and participatory divides that privilege some groups over others.

The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia of interconnected variables, which involve political, societal, as well as ethical and moral considerations associated with empathy, responsibility, sustainability, and solidarity (Sadler-Smith & Akstinaite 2022). Due to these reasons, research in climate change discourse has gained currency in the present-day linguistic and mass media studies. One of the means of exploring how corporate and political actors view the issue of global climate change involves framing, which is copiously applied in linguistic, mass media, and discourse-related research directions (Gillings & Dayrell 2024; Schlichting 2013). To-date, however, little is known about how climate change discourse is framed by the current British monarch King Charles III. This contribution presents a qualitative study that explores the way climate change discourse is framed by King Charles III. The study involves a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III from 2005 to 2023. The corpus was analysed qualitatively in line with the framing methodology developed by Entman (1993, 2004, 2007). The analysis revealed that climate change was framed as A 2 Degree World, Deforestation, Responsibility, Risk, Sustainability, Threat, and Urgency. The findings and their discussion are further described in the article.

The study conducted a content analysis of four selected Nigerian daily newspapers namely; Daily Trust, Leadership, the Nation and Vanguard Newspapers in order to assess the coverage of food security and climate change issues/stories by these newspapers. The study covered a period of three years (2020, 2021 and 2022). The objectives of the study were to determine the volume of coverage of food security and climate change issues by the selected Nigerian newspapers, compare the total coverage of food security and climate change issues amongst them. The four selected newspapers were purposively chosen based on popularity in four regions, a total of 4380 issues of the 4 newspapers were obtained. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the coverage while Paired t-test was used to compare differences between the total coverage of climate change and food security issues by each newspaper. The findings of the research revealed that coverage of food security and climate change information by selected newspapers in the study area is generally low with 1,247 (31%) articles and 611 articles (15%) respectively. Leadership newspaper had the highest number of coverages with 187 issues/stories on climate change while Daily Trust had the highest coverage of food security issues/stories with 365. It was therefore recommended that the newspaper publishers should increase innovative coverage and passing of food security and climate change issues including engaging Journalist in climate summits, workshops and conferences.

The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet in general and individual countries in particular (Gardiner, 2024; Yasmin, 2024). As far as the issue of climate change in individual countries is concerned, in the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, climate change resurfaces quite routinely as a topic of political debates by the major political actors (Kapranov, 2024a; Ruiu et al., 2024), who usually regard it through the lens of scientific evidence (Sébastien et al., 2014; Strassheim & Kettunen, 2014). The current British monarch, King Charles III, is also reported to use science-based evidence in his public speeches and written communication on the issue of climate change (Lovelock & Lovelock, 2013). Presently, however, little is known about how evidence, and more specifically, evidentiality are represented in King Charles III’s speeches on this issue. In light of the lack of studies on evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change, the article presents a mixed-methods study, which aims to (i) identify, (ii) classify and (iii) analyse the categories of evidentiality in a corpus of speeches on climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study is informed by the view of evidentiality as a category in its own right (Aikhenvald, 2004), which expresses “the kinds of evidence a person has for making factual claims” (Anderson, 1986: 273). Guided by Aikhenvald’s (2004) classification of evidentiality, the analysis of the corpus revealed that evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change was manifested by several categories, namely (i) assumption, (ii) hearsay, (iii) inference, (iv) non-visual sensory, (v) quotative, and (vi) visual. Furthermore, the analysis established that the quotative category of evidentiality was dominant in the corpus. The finding was taken to indicate that King Charles III’s speeches on the issue of climate change involved, to a substantial degree, evidence-based judgements on the matter.

The paper is divided in three parts. In the first one, the climate change issue is presented and a brief analysis of the major international treaties on climate change is provided. A special focus is placed on the concept of the combination between mitigation and adaptation activities which is required to deal effectively with climate change. The second part deals with the link between climate change and environmental security, stressing in particular the contribution that climate change may give to worsen the already occurring environmental crisis at a global level, acting as a “threat multiplier”. In order to prevent the effect of such a possible combined negative effect of climate change and environmental security, a serious and sharp series of climate change mitigation and adaptation activities must be performed in the years to come in an even more constant and incisive way compared to the last two decades. The third part addresses more specifically the issue of how to reduce environmental security risks in SEE through the implementation of climate change treaties. In such a context, in particular, two specific scenarios are proposed and analysed. Firstly, under option A, the simpler possibility for SEE countries to implement the existing major climate change treaties, namely the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, is considered. The formal implementation of such treaties should be accompanied by the development of appropriate national mitigation and adaptation policies to effectively tackle climate change and prevent climate change related risks. Depending on the seriousness and effectiveness of such national policies, the outcomes of the domestic actions in each of the SEE countries may finally prove more or less successful. Secondly, under option B, a more sophisticated integrated approach is proposed for the SEE countries, based on the track indicated by the 2005 Energy Community South East Europe Treaty (ECSEE Treaty), which aims inter alia at reducing environmental risks by establishing a single and comprehensive regulatory framework for trading energy across SEE. Such a treaty imposes to the contracting parties, as a prerequisite for its effective enforcement, the implementation of the most relevant acquis communautaire in the environmental, energy and competition fields. Moreover, it calls for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, thus linking within a broad comprehensive legal framework the major climate change, environmental, energy and competition issues in an integrated way.

What may we hope for? Education in times of climate change

There is a growing number of research publications on corporate discourse, focusing on how natural resource corporations frame their discourses in corporate reports, including their respective discourses on corporate responsibility [1], environmental sustainability, and climate change [2; 306]. Presently, however, little research is available on the discourse on climate change in corporate reports by Vedanta Resources (henceforth —VR), a natural resources corporation that operates in the countries of the so-called Global South, in particular, in India, South Africa, Liberia, and Namibia [3]. Seeking to bridge the research gap, the article introduces a qualitative study that examines VR’s climate change discourse in its corporate reports. Specifically, the study aimed to establish how VR framed its climate change discourse in its corporate reports associated with the issue of climate change. To that end, a corpus of VR’s corporate reports on the issue climate change was collected. The corpus involved VR’s corporate reports published within the time frame from 2019 to 2024. The corpus was analysed qualitatively in line with the framing methodology developed by Entman [4]. The results of the qualitative investigation of the corpus revealed that VR framed its corporate discourse on the issue of climate change via such frames as, for instance, Commitment, Governance, Mitigation, Optimisation, Recognition, Responsibility, and Risk. The findings were illustrated in detail in the article. Furthermore, the findings were discussed from the vantage point of the existing body of published research on the framing of climate change by corporate actors. In light of the literature, the discussion showed that VR’s framing of climate change seemed to be aligned with the respective framings of climate change by the major international corporate actors. The article concluded with an outline of the findings and their relevance to corporate discourse and communication associated with the issue of climate change

Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden?Edited by ANDERS SANDBERG and TOR SANDBERG. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2010. $35.00Reviewed by Miranda BakshChilly Climates - Who’s Carrying the Burden? is a collection of eighteen intriguing narratives on current global environmental issues, written by activists, scholars, and professionals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Ranging from the Green Party’s Elizabeth May to York University professor Anders Sandberg, the array of perspectives presented enables the reader to analyse environmental issues from various angles. This allows the audience to use these perspectives to help sculpt and broaden their own personal opinion. Global environmental dilemmas are highlighted, which not only broadens the reader’s understanding of climate change concerns but both sparks their curiosity and allows them to question the issues further.The stories of those who most acutely suffer the effects of climate change are represented in the pages of this text through investigations of numerous environmental events that have occurred—particularly those that have taken place in marginalized communities — around the world. Contributors to this text highlight the stories of those who suffer the effects of climate change most profoundly, ensuring that the prolonged stresses with which they contend are uncovered and understood. Exemplary contributions include Sonja Killoran-McKibbin’s description of an efficient citizen-based conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia; Tanya Gulliver’s insights on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and Tor Sandberg’s interview with renowned environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, who discusses current issues in India related to the increased use of fossil fuels.Other important concepts for students in environmental studies introduced in this text include environmental refugees, presented by Aaron Saad; reproductive justice, explored though Noel Sturgeon’s ecocritique of the animated film Happy Feet; and the survival of Inuit populations, as explored by Jelena Vesic. Each contribution to this volume not only makes the reader aware of the appalling situations that people face around the world as a result of climate change, but also motivates the reader to think about climate change issues more critically, interrogating how they might be implicated in unjust practices. By providing examples of past environmental events as well as new approaches to tackling environmental concerns, the writing in this text encourages readers to look for solutions and to educate others about climate change and environmental justice issues. This book offers an alternative to the conventional belief that climate change is an issue we will only face in the distant future. Instead, the papers in this text argue that climate change is an existing problem and that its consequences are irreversible. The urgency, seriousness, and international implications of climate change are made clear in this text as the authors collectively argue that we need to shift our thinking to include both solution centred approaches and preventative measures to deal with the dire consequences of the planet’s changing climate. In addition, previous failures in addressing environmental concerns are illustrated, such as the unsuccessful United Nations conference in Copenhagen (COP15). Accordingly, the reader is exposed to the inadequate process by which global environmental issues are frequently dealt with, and the unwillingness of the parties who are primarily responsible to take meaningful action. This collection of critical writing not only informs and enlightens the reader, but is also inspirational. Chilly Climates - Who’s Carrying the Burden? makes evident that climate change is truly a global phenomenon, and that we are entering a time of global inequity. Each contribution to this compilation presents a unique approach to climate change research where readers are encouraged to appreciate the diversity of each bias, as they are derived from personal experiences of the authors. This book is recommended for students, educators, and citizens who wish to explore alternative perspectives on climate change, which do not lose sight of its victims.~MIRANDA BAKSH is an undergraduate student at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She is focusing her studies in the Environmental Management stream of her program, and also has a broad range of interests in French Studies, Dance, and Biology.

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

Universities play an essential role in spreading climate change awareness. However, slight information on climate change and environmental issues had been integrated into the curricula. Moreover, minimal research had been carried out to understand university role in spreading awareness, and students level of awareness and daily behaviour towards climate change, especially in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate the aforementioned issues. An experimental study was carried out on 448 undergraduate students enrolled at An-Najah National University Palestine. The study aimed to examine students’ knowledge and daily behaviour towards climate change, and the important role the university and students’ societies play in terms of spreading and enhancing awareness. The results revealed that female and male students had a non satisfactory interest level in environmental topics and activities, and gender equality did not seem to be an issue. Moreover, female students tend to have a significantly lower level of awareness on climate change compared to male students. On the other hand, being an engineering students or a member in students’ societies had a positive impact on students’ level of awareness and especially females. The results revealed that female students who are enrolled in the engineering faculty or members of students’ societies had a significantly higher level of awareness compared to female students who are enrolled in other faculties or not members of students’ societies. In general, students had a low level of awareness regardless of gender or faculty and universities should offer undergraduate students and especially female students’ opportunities to learn more about climate change by integrating climate change topics into higher education. Moreover, universities should support extracurricular activities held by student societies, and some of these activities should be directed towards environmental and climate change issues. This study entails the activities of the Mediterranean Gender Equality Community of Practice co-created by the Mediterranean Network of Engineering Schools (RMEI), where An-Najah University is an active member, with the support of the EU TARGET project entitled ’Taking a reflexive approach to gender equality at Institutional transformation’.